My three-year-old (almost) niece has taken some recent fashion advice from Elton John. Somehow, I think her Nana had a hand in this ... is she trying to recruit more family members for our Elton John concert trips? … [Read more...]
Response to What Is Probably the Most Ignorant Message I’ve Received In 10 Years of Writing Finance Articles
July 26, 2010 By 2 Comments
A reader named Medusa wrote me and, to keep it short, explained that I shouldn't believe people should be rich because the Bible is against rich people, that I was going to die a miserable, lonely old man with no one who loved me because I saved my money instead of spending it, and that after reading a profile I wrote based on Federal Reserve data of the Capitalist Class in the United States, she was starting to consider the possibility that the rich were nothing but oppressors who steal from … [Read more...]
Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future) – Rare Elton John Song
March 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I can't stop listening to this ... I think it is the syncopation in the piano rhythm that I appreciate. Something about it reminds me of the Tumbleweed Connection album a la "Son of Your Father". … [Read more...]
The 5 Levels of Building Wealth
March 2, 2010 By 5 Comments
Early in life, I developed a theory that there were five levels of building wealth that most self-made men (and women) go through to reach financial independence. It was started by my love for Carl Barks Scrooge McDuck comics. When I started reading the Federal Reserve reports of consumer wealth, empirical studies, and other sources of data, and discovered that 90% of those in the United States who are millionaires made the money on their own - that is, they did not inherit it - I … [Read more...]
My Mom at the Billy Joel and Elton John Concert
February 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
My mom wasn't allowed to go see Elton John as a kid. She came from a very fundamentalist household and seeing a "homosexual" wasn't something God's people did, or so they were told. So, she would wait up at night and watch him on television instead of going to bed. Once she was old enough, she had all of his albums and when he walks out on stage (she's seem him twice - once in 2005 and then again last night), she is able to get some serious volume to her screams of joy. To this day, she … [Read more...]
The Billy Joel and Elton John Concert in Kansas City at the Sprint Center Tonight Was Great
February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
There's a Good Chance That Were It Not for these Two Men, You Wouldn't Be Reading This Blog Right Now My mom, arguably as big of an Elton John fan as I am, took Aaron and me to the Billy Joel and Elton John Concert in Kansas City at the Sprint Center. (Thanks again mom!) My life was incalculably changed because of both Billy Joel and Elton John, as most of you who know me realize, and seeing them live together at the Sprint Center in Kansas City tonight was awesome. I had never seen … [Read more...]
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